Trove Dungeons, Dragons and Cubes

You pick a class and it plays nothing like the others. A Knight swings a big sword, a Gunslinger shoots from range, an Ice Sage crushes enemies with, yes, deadly ice cream. There is a Pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, and ninja techniques to master if that is more your speed. You can play one class or work your way through all of them, upgrading gear as the challenges get bigger. Costumes let you strut your stuff while you do it, because looking great matters as much as hitting hard in a world made of cubes.

Every realm you visit is procedurally generated, so no two playthroughs look the same. You can break every block, which matters when a dungeon wall is in your way or you want materials for your next build. One jump might land you in the Treasure Isles, the next in Candoria, home of the sweet-toothed Candy Barbarians. Getting around is half the fun: you ride fire-breathing dragons and whiskered Meownts, and later you can take to the sky with wings, a flying carpet or a boat for the seas. Action is tuned to your level, so there is always somewhere untamed to conquer.

The loop is simple and satisfying: find a dungeon, fight through minions, traps and a boss, and liberate the armor and weapons inside. Big dungeons are best crawled with a group; smaller Lairs are single servings of danger, perfect for a solo session. The loot goes beyond gear: costumes, decorations, recipes, crafting ingredients, sea-faring ships and dragons of mighty renown all pile up in your collection. It is a game built around the pleasure of one more run, because the next chest might hold something you have been chasing for weeks.

Your Cornerstone is a home you place block by block, and it comes with you. Drop it on a marked plot in any world you are visiting and your hand-crafted base appears on the spot, ready for crafting and kicking back. Feeling more ambitious, you can build entire Club Worlds with friends: enormous geodesic domes in the desert, castles in the sky, whatever the group fancies. You can even make and submit your own items, from dungeons and lairs to class costumes, and collect the huge range of gear your fellow players have made. It is a sandbox in the most literal sense.

This is an MMO built for a lobby of friends. Building is the social heart of it: club worlds are made together, and the crafting, farming, fishing and piñata parties all go down easier with company. Sessions are casual by design, join up, coordinate, jump in. Fair warning from long-time players: the trading and marketplace features have been disabled recently, so plan on earning your gear yourselves rather than trading for it.